Skiplist

[Fusion]

Didn't you keep the IkonBoard posts?
Let's see.. There were two things;

First the way you enable/disable the skiplist in build 800 is teadious (going to options, skiplist, check enable). I suggested you make that checkbox the global status, and restore the Tools-option and make that setting local to each instance (ie. memory-based only).

Second, I was asking for a way to override the skiplist matching on a case-by-case basis, such as adding an option in the right-click pulldown to force-add a skipped item to the queue. See, as it is now, the skiplist excludes dirs/files that matches, but if you add them to the queue with the skiplist disabled, enable it and then do the queue, it'll still transfer the items that's normally skipped. I dont think this would require that big a change, and if you did this, suggestion #1 isn't nearly as vital (tho, we would like to see both at some point )

Umm, maybe this thread should be split and put in Suggestions.

[Shark]

The skip list is quite easy to disable. I dont think in anyway it is 'teadious'.

This is only in reply to the first part of Fusion's suggestion.

The second half, that reply can be handled by the boss

[Fusion]

Sorry, that was "tedious", that help clear up the mist that surrounds you? I never said it wasn't easy. I said it was repetitive. Also, it was alot easier before, but that's already covered in the rest of my post.

[bigstar]

1:
The reason the skiplist option was removed from tools is because it caused some confusion and it didn't work as I intended it to, as did the anti-idle option. There were conflicts between it and the per-site setting.


2:
If I understand your situation correctly then I think the ideal solution would be to change the skiplist settings 'When to skip' to 'automatic file transfers'

This will allow you to manually queue a file that would be normally skipped.

Then when you transfer a folder the only content of that folder will be applied to the skiplist.

[Fusion]

Hmm, let me see if that works. I'm 99% sure I already tried it like you said, and if so, I just might have a bug.. I'm not sure what I hope for more.

[Fusion]

Yup, I stand corrected. Thanks, bigstar.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by bigstar
1:
The reason the skiplist option was removed from tools is because it caused some confusion and it didn't work as I intended it to, as did the anti-idle option. There were conflicts between it and the per-site setting.

So a global vs local (limited to each instance of flashfxp) won't do anything to correct this? Or do you plan to just re-think it and re-implement it at a later date? Although I fail to see how it could be done better, I do know greatness works in mysterious ways.

[bigstar]

per-site has 3 possible settings.

Enabled
Disabled
Use global default

Enabled & Disable override the global setting, which would also override the skiplist option in the Tools menu.

[Fusion]

Yes, but if you go to Options. Skiplist and change the setting there in one instance, it's reflected in another instance that's in use aswell. Note: That's 2 already loaded, I'm not talking about loading another after changing the setting, I know that gets whatever setting is the global, unless specified like you described.
Maybe that's a bug, maybe it's intentional, at least, to me, it's a tad illogical.

[mdn]

>Enabled & Disable override the global setting, which would also override the skiplist option in the Tools menu.


That's exactly what i want (for skiplist or anti-idle)
All my sites have 'Use Global setting' and, like Fusion, i would like to be able to check the Skiplist menu in /Tools for one session of FF only.. per-site settings would still override this setting

I agree it's quite confusing but.. it is SO useful

[Fusion]

Exactly.

From what bigstar described, I'm leaning towards a bug. I guess that's a goodthing, afterall.